Isabelle Mortello wrote...
Go ahead, please. I want to hear them with an open mind.
Sure. Of course, it's just an opinion, but I think I have some slightly justifiable reasons behind it.
1. The character is well-voiced. Right when I first saw Tali in ME1 through the end of the game, I thought it was impressive just how expressive the character was despite being masked 100% of the time. ME2 improved on this and gave her more of a personality, which is why I think she's somewhat better-represented later on. I never had a hard time understanding her through the accent or thought "Man...why did they put that accent in"? Video games commonly make accents feel silly or forced, but Tali was always portrayed as being very foreign (only Quarian in all of ME1) so it made sense to me.
2. The Quarians are my favorite race. Maybe this comes from being rather starved in terms of sci-fi (never read much of it), but I find the idea of an entire race supported entirely by mobile ships to be pretty cool. Add in their backstory with the Geth, and it gets a whole lot more interesting. There are ethical questions to be raised about whether they were right in their treatment of the Geth, how synthetics should be treated differently from organics if at all differently, and so on. (Ties into why I like Legion just as much as Tali.) As for personal preference, I also like the design of the Quarians' suits, but more from a technical/mechanical standpoint than...however the Talimancers view them. Their weird sexual attraction to the whole concept is something that has gone miles over my head, but I don't care to stick that head up there and ask them about it. Safer in the bunker here.
3.Tali's personal backstory is developed pretty well, with just enough room to speculate and imagine what's going on. (I can say the same thing of Garrus and Legion, although they're beside the point right now.) You start understanding part of Rael'Zorah's plans, but later find out just how much he uses Tali to pursue his political motivation, who is unknowing the entire time. His death scene is carried out with all sorts of class, too--a bittersweet moment done
right for once. As his unwavering focus on his goal is blinded by apparent progress, you can see his constitution and rationality crumbling away, leaving Tali without any idea how to act after his demise; on the one hand, the only family member she really knew is dead, but on the other, it turns out that he was using her the entire time as a tool to pursue his own ambitions, even if it was partly out of love. There are plenty of other facets of the backstory, but I think that example gives a decent idea of what I'm getting at.
4. Tali is useful as a squadmate in combat. In ME1, she's quite handy for short-range assistance if you are a long range-centered class, or for screwing around with enemy tech. (Destroyer turns on its former allies, wreaks havoc! Easy to take out what few remnants are left.) In ME2, the combat drone makes for a great distraction along with the shield drain to weaken a powerful target. Hacking lost some of its use as you now have to get through shields to pull it off, but it still has potential. Admittedly, her weapons were
far better in ME1 since ME2 nerfed the hell out of shotties, but the massive potential of the combat drone makes up for it. Anyway...
Those are just what came off the top of my head, but I hope you get the gist of why I like the character from those points. And these are a few other small reasons, although they're just personal preference rather than analysis (my nerd reasons for liking the character rather than the intellectual ones above).
-Tali's loyalty mission is the most interesting. It goes from some quite lengthy, entertaining dialogue to a unique combat area, then switches back for a little more dialogue (it's cool that the climax is actually the dialogue rather than the combat).
-I like her
theme the most. Yes, the music in ME2 isn't orchestral, but...comparatively, this theme is pretty good. As a musician for 10 years and counting, I see a lot of elements of successful composition in there, though I won't bore you with the details since only us music geeks give a rip about that.
...and by "successful composition," I mean themes and patterns I like to hear in music. Beethoven would be turning in his grave if I tried to get professional about it.
-I like machines. The whole Quarian race is based around machines, and they even look like half-machines with their suits and all. Just a design aethetic I really enjoy.
-One of Tali's lines references the Miniature Giant Space Hamster.
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